I was pondering this earlier when on the radio people were moaning about family tax credits and remembered that one of my mates use to work in a call centre that handled tax credits.
Apparently there's several such call centres that do nothing but handle giving back money gathered in tax to the tax payers that bother to claim.
So essentially we're taxed, get some back and pay a couple of thousand people to handle the process - why aren't we taxed less on our pay to start with?
I'm no expert but I know there's a couple of financial wizards on the OCUK site - surely there's a better system? surely ditching the stealth taxes and avoiding these refunds/grants/rebates would save money? Having another process like this just opens up another point of failure/error where things can be miscalculated.
I honestly think that the UK public know that a majority of their gross pay goes in tax anyway, wouldn't it be nice if we could simplify it - as it looks like we're going to get more and more complex tax systems in the future, at some point the system isn't going to make sense to anyone, even those running it.
P.S. sorry in one of those hungover/ponderous moods this evening
Apparently there's several such call centres that do nothing but handle giving back money gathered in tax to the tax payers that bother to claim.
So essentially we're taxed, get some back and pay a couple of thousand people to handle the process - why aren't we taxed less on our pay to start with?
I'm no expert but I know there's a couple of financial wizards on the OCUK site - surely there's a better system? surely ditching the stealth taxes and avoiding these refunds/grants/rebates would save money? Having another process like this just opens up another point of failure/error where things can be miscalculated.
I honestly think that the UK public know that a majority of their gross pay goes in tax anyway, wouldn't it be nice if we could simplify it - as it looks like we're going to get more and more complex tax systems in the future, at some point the system isn't going to make sense to anyone, even those running it.
P.S. sorry in one of those hungover/ponderous moods this evening
